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D-Index
49
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45363
World Ranking
2835
National Ranking
1370

Naomi P. Friedman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Naomi P. Friedman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 118 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Naomi P. Friedman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Naomi P. Friedman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Naomi P. Friedman is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Clinical Psychology.

Friedman's work addresses several core topics, including Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Mental Health Research Topics, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Recent scholarly contributions by Friedman include publications in high-impact journals. Notable papers are:

  • "The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function" (2021), published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Twin studies to GWAS: there and back again" (2021), published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Other recent collaborative works in which Friedman is associated include studies published in Nature Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, and Assessment, highlighting interdisciplinary collaboration within neuroscience and psychiatry.

Frequent co-authors of Friedman include Robin P. Corley, Marie T. Banich, John K. Hewitt, Claire L. Morrison, and Tor D. Wager, reflecting sustained collaborative efforts across their research projects.

Friedman's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Behavior Genetics, Clinical Psychological Science, NeuroImage, and Biological Psychiatry. These outlets indicate a research trajectory engaged with both pre-publication dissemination and established peer-reviewed journals within psychology and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;Michael J. Emerson;Alexander H. Witzki

  • The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman

  • The relations among inhibition and interference control functions: a latent-variable analysis.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Susan E. Young;John C. DeFries

  • Unity and diversity of executive functions: Individual differences as a window on cognitive structure.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Not All Executive Functions Are Related to Intelligence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Robin P. Corley;Susan E. Young

  • How are visuospatial working memory, executive functioning, and spatial abilities related? A latent-variable analysis.

    Akira Miyake;Naomi P. Friedman;David A. Rettinger;Priti Shah

  • The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function.

    Naomi P Friedman;Trevor W Robbins

  • Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.

    Donald J. Hagler;Sean N. Hatton;M. Daniela Cornejo;Carolina Makowski

  • Behavioral disinhibition: liability for externalizing spectrum disorders and its genetic and environmental relation to response inhibition across adolescence.

    Susan E. Young;Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Erik G. Willcutt

  • Developmental Trajectories in Toddlers’ Self-restraint Predict Individual Differences in Executive Functions 14 Years Later: A Behavioral Genetic Analysis

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;JoAnn L. Robinson;John K. Hewitt

  • The reading span test and its predictive power for reading comprehension ability

    Naomi P Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • ASSESSMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS IN CLINICAL SETTINGS: PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

    Akira Miyake;Michael J. Emerson;Naomi P. Friedman

  • Stability and Change in Executive Function Abilities from Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin Study.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake;Lee J. Altamirano;Robin P. Corley

  • Greater Attention Problems During Childhood Predict Poorer Executive Functioning in Late Adolescence

    Naomi P. Friedman;Brett C. Haberstick;Erik G. Willcutt;Akira Miyake

  • Comparison of four scoring methods for the reading span test.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Resting-state networks predict individual differences in common and specific aspects of executive function.

    Andrew E. Reineberg;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Brendan Eliot Depue;Naomi P. Friedman

  • Genetic Relations Among Procrastination, Impulsivity, and Goal-Management Ability Implications for the Evolutionary Origin of Procrastination

    Daniel E. Gustavson;Akira Miyake;John K. Hewitt;Naomi P. Friedman

  • Differential roles for visuospatial and verbal working memory in situation model construction.

    Naomi P. Friedman;Akira Miyake

  • Toward a comprehensive understanding of executive cognitive function in implicit racial bias.

    Tiffany A. Ito;Naomi P. Friedman;Bruce D. Bartholow;Joshua Correll

  • Sleep reactivity and insomnia: genetic and environmental influences.

    Christopher L. Drake;Naomi P. Friedman;Kenneth P. Wright;Thomas Roth;Thomas Roth

  • College attendance and its effect on drinking behaviors in a longitudinal study of adolescents.

    David S. Timberlake;David S. Timberlake;Christian J. Hopfer;Soo Hyun Rhee;Naomi P. Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

John K. Hewitt
John K. Hewitt University of Colorado Boulder
Robin P. Corley
Robin P. Corley University of Colorado Boulder
Soo Hyun Rhee
Soo Hyun Rhee University of Colorado Boulder
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder
Marie T. Banich
Marie T. Banich University of Colorado Boulder
JoAnn Robinson
JoAnn Robinson University of Connecticut
Susan F. Tapert
Susan F. Tapert University of California, San Diego
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler
Carolyn Zahn-Waxler University of Wisconsin–Madison

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